From brains to consciousness? : essays on the new sciences of the mind
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From brains to consciousness? : essays on the new sciences of the mind
Allen Lane, 1998
Available at 6 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Recent findings in neuroscience and their philosophical implications are leading to changes in our self-understanding. This book brings together many voices within this field, addressing vexing and exciting issues to emerge from current research, including the possibility of artificial intelligence and the nature of schizophrenia.
Table of Contents
- Brains, minds and the world, Steven Rose
- the human brain - 100 billion connected cells, John Parnavelas
- the pharmacology of thought and emotion, Trevor Robbins
- memory and brain systems, Larry R. Squire
- the physiological basis of memory, Tim Bliss
- ageing of the brain - is mental decline inevitable?, A. David Smith
- why there will never be a convincing theory of schizophrenia, Richard bentall
- nuclear schizophrenia symptoms as the key to the evolution of modern homo sapiens, Tim J. Crow
- can a computer understand?, Roger Penrose
- a neurocomputational view of consciousness, Igor Aleksander
- flagging the present with qualia, Richard Gregory
- how might the brain generate consciousness?, Susan Greenfield
- consciousness from a neurobiological perpsective, Wolf Singer
- one world, but a big one, Mary Midgley.
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